Toy cooking stove



. April 23, 1940.

c. POHLHAUS 2,198,177 TOY COOKING STOVE Filed May 27, 1938 Fatented Apr. 23, I940 UNITED STATES PTENT OFFME TOY COOKING STDVE Conrad Pohlhaus, Marienberg, Saxony, Germany Application May 27, 1938, Serial No. 210,390

2 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in toy cooking stoves made of sheet metal or other suitable material.

Numerous constructions of toy cooking stoves are. known some of which have heating means such as a spirit lamp to enable children to actually cook with the stove.

The invention has for its object to make toy stoves more interesting for children and consists in arranging spark producing devices in the stove in such a manner that they produce beams of sparks which are visible from the exterior of the stove.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated, by way of example, in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 shows a stove in front elevation partly in section.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 shows in front elevation a portion of the actuating mechanism.

The stove consists of a sheet metal box I in the bottom of which a spirit lamp 2 is removably inserted. Above this lamp a shaft 4 is journalled in the rear wall and in a plate 3 on the front wall of the box I. The foot end of the shaft 4 projecting from the front wall of the box I is formed to a handle 3a for manually rotating the shaft which carries a friction wheel 5, cooperating with a cerium stone 8 carried in a tube 6 and pressed against the friction wheel 5 by a spring 1 accommodated in tubefi.

If the shaft 4 is rotated by means of the handle 3a a beam of sparks will be produced by the friction wheel 5' rubbing against the cerium stone 8 and projected towards the upper plate of the box I which has at this point an aperture 9 to enable the sparks to be seen from the outer side of the stove.

(Cl. 46-M) The shaft 4 also carries a cam l0 cooperating with one arm of a spring influenced two-armed lever Ii whose other arm is movably connected with a friction rod l2 vertically guided in the stove chimney, near the upper end of which a horizontal tube I3 is mounted earring a cerium stone l5 pressed against the friction rod l2 by a spring l4 also accommodated in tube 63.

During the rotation of the shaft 1 the cam Ill rocks the two-armed lever H which imparts an up and down movement to the friction rod I 2 causing it to rub against the cerium stone l5 and to produce a beam of sparks which is projected from the upper end of the chimney.

I claim:

1. In a toy cooking stove of the character described wherein the stove comprises a casing section with supporting legs and wherein the casing section has a top wall with a chimney rising from the top wall and an opening in the top wall laterally of the chimney, separate sparkproducing means respectively located within the casing structure and chimney and a single manually operated device for operating said spark producing means for the ejection of sparks from the Ill opening in the top wall of the casing structure and chimney in simulation of a stove fire.

2. A toy cooking stove as set forth in claim 1, characterized by an element of the sparking means in the casing structure being rotatable and the operating means for the sparking means in cluding a shaft-journaled in the front and rear wall of the casing structure for supporting said rotatable element, the sparking means in the chimney including a reciprocating element, a cam device carried by said shaft and operative connections between said cam device and said reciprocating element.

CONRAD POI-ELHAUS. 

